design, strategy
and consulting
for cultural,
institutional, and
commercial clients.
To be a teacher
is my greatest work of art!
Joseph Beuys
As an educator, Patricia focuses on paratextual devices, framing mechanisms that provide voice, enhance experience, and create spaces of awareness. She teaches graphic design and typography and co-directs with Paul Shaw, Tipo, Cibo, Vino, a letterpress workshop in Cornuda Italy.
P Childers Design, her design firm based in New York City, is composed of a collaborative group of communicators, strategists, problem solvers, designers, writers, and coders. Because of our varied backgrounds, cultural, ethical, and economic considerations are as relevant as aesthetic and technical details. As a result, their engaging solutions for book design, brand identity, interactive, and print projects resonate with cultural context.
By design, they work with cultural and educational institutions, science and healthcare organizations, and emerging brands. Many clients have depended on its collaborative relationship since the studio began in 2005.
about . . .
As founding principal, Patricia serves as the creative director and manager of P Childers Design. In addition, she teaches graphic design and typography at the New York City College of Technology, (Citytech,) CUNY.
Through her education and work with cultural institutions, she has honed the ability to distill the heart of the conversation. The investigation of content over style focuses on communication that informs, empowers, and engages. Her background in design and critical studies merge in her graphic work—where context plays a key role in determining text and image.
Patricia’s belief that content and form carry equal weight developed in her various positions as creative director of two universities, art director at Malcolm Grear Designers, and marketing designer at Bowne Business Communications. She has been responsible for projects that include the design of books, publications, annual reports and marketing publications, identity and branding, and interactive for clients such as Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York University, and Penguin Books.
Patricia received her MFA in graphic design from Vermont College of Fine Arts, her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and studied cultural criticism at New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science. She is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA,) CAA, AIGA Design Educators Community, and The Type Director's Club (TDC), and The Center for Book Arts. She currently serves as co-director of Tipo, Cibo, Vino, a letterpress workshop in Cornuda Italy.